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Throughout history, dark and reactionary forces have always attempted
to control the world; by violence, by deceit, by kidnapping and perverting the
mainstream narrative, or by spreading fear among the masses.

Consistently, brave and honest individuals have been
standing up, exposing lies, confronting the brutality and depravity. Some have fought
against insane and corrupt rulers by using swords or guns; others have chosen
words as their weapons.

Many were cut down; most of them were. New comrades rose up;
new banners of resistance were unveiled.

To resist is to dream of a better world. And to dream is to
live.

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The bravest of the brave never fought for just their own
countries and cultures; they fought for the entire humanity. They were and they
are what one could easily define as "intuitive internationalists".

Julian Assange, an Australian computer expert, thinker and
humanist, had chosen a new and mostly untested form of combat: he unleashed an
entire battalion of letters and words, hundreds of thousands of documents,
against the Western empire. He penetrated databases which have been storing the
evidence of the most atrocious crimes the West has been committing for years
and decades. Toxic secrets were exposed; truths revealed. To those who have
been suffering in silence, both face and dignity were finally returned.

Julian Assange was a 'commander' of a small team of
dedicated experts and activists. I met some of them, and was tremendously
impressed. But no matter how small in numbers, this team has been managing to
change the world, or at least to give the Western public an opportunity to know, and consequently to act.

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After WikiLeaks, no one in New York, Berlin, London or Paris
has any right to say "we did not know". If they do not know now, it is because
they have decided not to know, opportunistically and cynically.

Julian Assange and his comrades published all that the West
was doing to the Afghan people, as well as to those suffering from
neo-colonialism and imperialism all over the Middle East, Africa, Asia and
Latin America.

What is it that the critics of Wikileaks are holding against
Mr. Assange? That the snitches and the agents of the Western empire got
'exposed'? Is the world expected to feel pity for them? Are tens of millions of
victims supposed to be forgotten just so that the members of the Western
intelligence services and their lackeys could feel safe and protected?

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A few days before this essay went to print, Julian Assange
was cynically betrayed by a country which used to be governed by a socialist administration,
and which gave him political asylum and citizenship, both. Its current ruler,
Lenin Moreno, will be judged extremely harshly by history: he'll be remembered
as a man who began dismantling the socialist structure of Ecuador, and who then
literally sold (to the twisted British and US judiciary systems) a man who has already
sacrificed more than his life for the truth as well as for survival of our planet.

As the Metropolitan Police dragged Julian Assange from the
Ecuadorian embassy in London into a van, the entire world could catch a glimpse
of the naked essence of the Western regime; the regime in action - oppressive, gangrenous,
murderous and vindictive.

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But we should not forget: the regime is not doing it because
it is confident and strong. It is actually terrified. It is in panic. It is
losing. And it is murdering, wherever it feels 'vulnerable', which is, all over
the world.

Why? Because the millions, on all continents, are waking up,
ready to face Western terror, ready to fight it, if there is no other way.

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